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Thanks to Jenny Ye from WNYC's data news team, we have a map showing where City Council member Margaret Chin and challenger Christopher Marte performed best in the recent District 1 Council election. In the Nov. 7 general election, Chin...

Life in politics has never come easily to Margaret Chin. In 2009, she was finally elected to the City Council in Lower Manhattan on her fourth try.

The other day we mentioned a "fact check" in City Limits which examined several claims from a campaign flyer distributed by a group called "Lower East Siders for Christopher Marte." Today we're taking a closer look at one of those claims.

You can tell a city election is just a few days away. Our in-box is filling up with increasingly vitriolic missives regarding the heated campaign for District 1's City Council seat.

There's only a week plus one day remaining until Election Day in New York City. Here in Lower Manhattan, voters will be called on to decide whether City Council member Margaret Chin should represent District 1 for one more term.

Leading up to election day on Nov. 7, City Council member Margaret Chin is taking a more assertive approach in fending off opponents for her District 1 seat.

Christopher Marte is planning to run against District 1 City Council member Margaret Chin in the general election, which takes place Nov. 7.

City Council member Margaret Chin expects the Board of Elections to certify results from the Sept. 12 Democratic Primary today, handing her what she was denied on election night: a victory. According to her campaign team, the two-term District 1...

Tonight it appears that Margaret Chin has eked out a narrow victory in the District 1 City Council race.

The Board of Elections is counting the affidavit and absentee ballots in the District 1 City Council race today.